In Acta Apostolorvm paraphrasis Erasmi Roterodami, nunc primum recens & nata & excusa, [bound with] Tomvs Secvndvs continens paraphrasim D. Erasmi Roterodami In omneis epistolas apostolicas, summa cura denuo ab ipso autore recognitam, emendatamq[ue] tum ex archetypis, tum eruditorum animaduersione, ita ut accuratius fieri uix potuerit. Caetera cognosces lector, inuersa pagina

Desiderius Erasmus (Netherlandish (worked in England and Switzerland), died in 1536)
Published by: Johann Froben (Swiss, died in 1527)

1524

Medium/Technique Printed book, letterpress with woodcut initials; scattered marginalia

Dimensions Overall: 32 x 21.3 x 5.4 cm (12 5/8 x 8 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Thomas Michie

Accession Number2014.2480

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts

Description(Basileae: in officina Io. Frobenij, A. M. D. XXIIII.[1524]); full 18th-century calf (dried and worn), with spine label "ERASMVS IN NOVVM TESTAMENT."

ProvenanceSir John Trelawny (b. 1816 - d. 1885), London; by inheritance to Trelawny's heirs; June 28, 1921, Sir John Trelawny sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 119, to "Michie," for either 18 or 28 shillings; H. Stuart Michie (b. 1871 - d. 1943), Worcester, MA; 1943, by inheritance to his wife, Jeanne Hatch Michie (d. 1958), Worcester, MA; 1958, by inheritance to her daughter, Anne Michie Sherman (b. 1921 - d. 2013), Madison, CT; 2013, by inheritance to her nephew, Thomas Michie, Brookline, MA; 2014, year-end gift of Michie to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 25, 2015)

NOTE: Lot 119 consisted of three books,